A new book digs into the lesser-known military side of China-Sri Lanka ties — training, exchanges and 'soft' defence diplomacy that Colombo has rarely disclosed publicly. #SriLanka #China www.jaffnamonitor.com/how-deep-do-...

28 dead at Negombo Prison in 2026 triggered probes, committees, headlines. In 1983, 53 Tamil prisoners were murdered at Welikada. No one was ever prosecuted. A guest column asks why justice's urgency has depended on who died. #JaffnaMonitor #SriLanka www.jaffnamonitor.com/justice-appa...

On the anniversary of his assassination, a personal recollection of Neelan Tiruchelvam — ICES founder, constitutional lawyer, and Tamil MP — and the work that brought together researchers, diplomats and journalists across South Asia. #JaffnaMonitor #SriLa www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/rem...

How did a bombing carried out by the Tamil Eelam Army come to be blamed on the LTTE? A JM investigation traces the PR strategy—and the man—behind decades of conflation. #JaffnaMonitor #SriLanka www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/eve...

Jaffna's Catholic clergy have asked the UN to oversee the Chemmani grave probe, breaking with Cardinal Ranjith, who backed international scrutiny for Easter Sunday victims but long opposed it for Tamil war dead. #Chemmani #SriLanka www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/tam...

El Niño is strengthening, and Prof. Pratheeparajah warns Mannar, Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu face water scarcity through October — possibly followed by heavy rain and flooding later in the season. #Jaffna #ElNino www.jaffnamonitor.com/as-el-nino-b...

Six Tamil-speaking parties — ITAK, SLMC, ACMC, CWC, TPA & DTNA — have jointly asked President Dissanayake for a meeting to raise issues from devolution to PTA detainees and land disputes. #SriLanka #Jaffna www.jaffnamonitor.com/six-tamil-sp...

Six Tamil and Muslim parties have formed a joint platform to press Colombo on provincial council elections, land rights, and constitutional reform. Sceptics ask how long the unity will last. #SriLanka #Jaffna www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/can...

JVP remains organisationally united under Dissanayake and Tilvin Silva, but analysts say it would lose a general election held today amid deepening economic hardship. #SriLanka #JVP www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/uni...

ITAK acting president C.V.K. Sivagnanam has urged visiting European envoys to push for a separate scientific probe into the Chemmani mass grave, saying dating the remains could help identify those responsible. #Chemmani #Jaffna www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/tam...

ITAK MP Thuraireasa Ravikaran says seized Indian trawlers are clogging Myliddy Fisheries Harbour, leaving local fishing families unable to use it fully. He's urged authorities to remove the vessels and restore access. #Jaffna #Myliddy www.jaffnamonitor.com/seized-india...

ITAK says government authorities began religious construction at Kanniya, Trincomalee, despite a 2020 court order barring such work. Party says legal action will follow. #Trincomalee #Kanniya www.jaffnamonitor.com/itak-accuses...

Sri Lanka's justice minister told Parliament the state recognizes no “political prisoners” — even as Tamil detainees held for decades under the PTA await action on President Dissanayake's release pledge. #SriLanka #Jaffna www.jaffnamonitor.com/sri-lanka-sa...

European diplomats visited the Chemmani mass grave in Jaffna, receiving a petition from families of the disappeared who say they've lost faith in domestic mechanisms and want an international investigation. #Chemmani #Jaffna www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/at-...

Two years after his death, Jaffna Monitor revisits the life of Thambapillai Maheswaran — 'Panagoda Maheswaran' — founder of the Tamil Eelam Army, whose daring jailbreaks and raids shaped the early Tamil struggle. #JaffnaMonitor #JMExclusive www.jaffnamonitor.com/the-audaciou...

Black July 1983 was not a spontaneous eruption. A guest column traces decades of broken pacts, discriminatory laws, and a leadership vacuum at the critical hour that let a pogrom unfold. #BlackJuly #SriLanka www.jaffnamonitor.com/black-july-w...

Parliament descended into personal insults Thursday as Speaker Wickramaratne called Jaffna MP Archchuna a "fool" and Government Leader Rathnayake said he was "psychologically affected." Ponnambalam has also refused to sit beside him. #SriLanka #Jaffna www.jaffnamonitor.com/speaker-call...

Deputy Minister Eranga Gunasekara blames Ranil Wickremesinghe and other UNP figures for the political climate behind the 1981 Jaffna Public Library burning, calling it a spark for the war and Black July. #Jaffna #SriLanka www.jaffnamonitor.com/they-set-fir...

Two Jaffna private hospitals fined over overcharging for blood tests. Venus Speciality Hospital fined Rs. 3 million, Yarl Mother Care Rs. 100,000, as CAA's nationwide crackdown on private healthcare pricing continues. #Jaffna #ConsumerRights www.jaffnamonitor.com/two-jaffna-p...

“We cannot tell these stories in Sri Lanka,” lawyers and activists told Shankari Chandran. In this interview, the Miles Franklin-winning author speaks to Jaffna Monitor on 2009, unresolved justice, and confronting the Tamil national project's own failures www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/we-...

After six years in Sri Lanka, outgoing Chinese Ambassador Qi Zhenhong bids farewell, citing deepened trust, expanding Belt and Road projects and cultural ties as the two nations mark 70 years of relations next year. #SriLanka #China www.jaffnamonitor.com/farewell-cey...

At the inaugural Colombo Literary Festival, Shashi Tharoor called on India and Sri Lanka to deepen ties through literature and translation, saying “stories continue to unite us in ways that politics sometimes cannot.” #ColomboLitFest #SriLanka www.jaffnamonitor.com/shashi-tharo...

Colombo High Court will allow key witness Sumathipala Sureshkumar to retestify in the Prageeth Eknaligoda disappearance trial, after he said his 2022 evidence was given under duress. Case resumes Aug. 7. #SriLanka #PressFreedom www.jaffnamonitor.com/sri-lankan-c...

An arrest warrant for Jaffna MP Ramanathan Archchuna sparked a Parliament clash over privilege. But does the law actually shield MPs from criminal proceedings? We break down what Section 5 really says. #SriLanka #Jaffna www.jaffnamonitor.com/can-an-mp-sk...

Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith keeps alleging a conspiracy behind the 2019 Easter bombings, despite FBI and Scotland Yard findings. A guest column asks why he offers no evidence—and stayed silent on wartime church bombings in the north. #SriLanka #EasterAttacks www.jaffnamonitor.com/the-cardinal...

A guest column examines why the Tamil diaspora largely abandoned the ex-LTTE cadres it once funded during the war, even as Colombo pressed ahead with rehabilitation. #Jaffna #SriLanka www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/the...

ITAK just replaced senior MP Sivagnanam Sritharan with 35-year-old Shanakiyan Rasamanickam as Parliamentary Group Leader after a clash over Sritharan’s Constitutional Council votes. What triggered the revolt—and what it reveals about party factions

Sumanthiran-Aligned Shanakiyan Named ITAK Parliamentary Group Leader

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Why would Sri Lanka’s “Rebuilding Sri Lanka” housing scheme offer up to Rs. 5 million to some Cyclone Dithwa victims—but exclude displaced Hill Country plantation families? Mano Ganesan asks the UN to intervene and lays out a 3-point demand bit.ly/4rtDpw6

‘This Is Apartheid’: Mano Ganesan Calls for UN Intervention in Cyclone Relief

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Is Praja Shakthi poverty relief—or a parallel power structure in Sri Lanka’s North & East? What’s driving the backlash #srilanka #independentjournalism #jaffna bit.ly/46nEEo6

Tamil Leaders Accuse Government of Building Parallel Power Structure Through Praja Shakthi

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Why did Sri Lanka turn to Norway as facilitator—and why did it still unravel after 9/11 and the EU ban in 2006? G. L. Peiris argues LTTE sought ISGA recognition, not a final settlement, and shares Balasingham’s warning about Prabhakaran

“Balasingham Saw the End — Prabhakaran Believed He Was Invincible”: G. L. Peiris on Sri Lanka’s Failed Peace Process

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